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 ...FLIGHT, AUGUST 15, 1930
Large crowds lined the streets and cheered Miss Amy Johnson when she droveon August 6 from her hotel to the Savoy, where a luncheon was given in her
honour. Our picture shows t...
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 ...IBRARY Next week : Combat cockpit 7 and How they flew 4 No. 5 OF A SERIES OF 10 THE IMMORTALS
Vickers Vimy, 2,360 h.p. Rolls-Royce Eagle VIII engines
Capt Jack Alcock and Lt Arthur Whitten-Brown made the first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic on
June 14-15, 1919. Preserved in the Science Museum, London. Flight Library copyright drawing 197...
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 ...adrons: No. 3, Upavon,
and No. 17, also at Upavon.
Vickers "Virginia "
Two Napier " Lions "
Event 7
This long-distance bomber was the
successor of the famous " Vimy," in
which Sir John Alcock and Sir
Arthur Whitten-Brown crossed the
Atlantic, and Sir Ross Smith and
his brother, Sir Keith Smith, flew
to Australia. It is a much larger
type, however, fitted with more
powerful engines, although in
gen...
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 ...9 AUGUST 1952
First to fly the North Atlantic
The story of the conquest of the richest air route in the world — the North Atlantic — begins
in 1919 when two British airmen, Sir John Alcock and Sir Arthur Whitten-Brown, made the
first non-stop crossing in an aeroplane.
They proved beyond a doubt that it could be done, that the tempestuous ocean could be
flown, but the prospects of ever conque...
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were five Constellation 049s, delivered in themiddle of 1946. The service from London
to New York was inaugurated on July 1.On the Constellation flight deck, discussing
the new aircraft, are Sir Arthur Whitten-Brown and Capt O. P. Jones, Atlantic
veterans both
At the end of the war, BO AC began to build its bigreputation for flying animals. A very important
arrival at Poole in May 1946 was th...
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 ...LIGHT, 25 June 1954 869
35 YEARS
AFTER
THE unveiling at London Airport on June 15th, of the memorial to Sir
John Alcock and Sir Arthur Whitten-Brown brought back vivid memories of their
arrival at Euston Station after they had made the first non-stop flight across the
Atlantic, on June 14th and 15th, 1919. The actual landing...
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 ...curity
of the world."
Those words were uttered by our present Prime
Minister twenty-five years ago, when he was asked to
present the Daily Mail cheque for £10,000 to Capt. John
Alcock and Lieut. Arthur Whitten-Brown for their flight
from Newfoundland to Ireland in a Vickers Vimy
biplane. They should fill us with admiration and with
shame; admiration for the crystal-clear mind which
foresa...
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 ...FLIGHT JULY IITH, 194G
ATLANTIC JOURNEY
the selection of the best seat position.
Forward near the engines there is
naturally most noise, while to the rear
there is rather more vibration. The
best comp...
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 ...s, it will be a stepforward of immense strategic value and, we may hope, a pre-
cursor of greater affinity to come.
PASSING OF A PIONEER
A S we go to press we learn with regret of the death of Sir•** Arthur Whitten-Brown who, with Captain J. Alcock,
D.S.C., made aeronautical history in June, 1919, by completingthe first direct flight across the Atlantic in a modified Vickers
Vimy biplane with two ...
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 ...FLIGHT, Jvm 20. 1929
" FLIGHT ** Photograph
THE FIRST NON-STOP ATLANTIC FLIGHT : When the two Atlantic airmenarrived at Euston they were met—with the greatest of difficulty !—by Gen. Groves
(Air Minis...
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 ...FLIGHT, AUGUST 1, 1929
CLOSING BANQUET TO THE SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL> AERO EXHIBITION
IV!. Louis Bleriot a Distinguished Guest
THE Seventh International Aero Exhibition terminatedwith a happy banquet a...
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AND
ENGINEER AIRSHIPS
FIRST AmoNAuricAflVEEKLY IN THE^WORLD > FOUNDED IOOO
Editor
C M. POULSEN
Managing Editor
G. GEOFFREY SMITH CAi'e/ Photographer
JOHN YOXALL
Editorial, Advertising...
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 ... summer of 1927. It was the second non-stop flight across the Atlantic, and the
first solo crossing. The first of all the non-stop Atlantic flights was made in 1919 by the late Sir John Alcock andSir Arthur Whitten-Brown, in a Vickers' Vimy, with two Eagle engines. Before Lindbergh started on this flight, his
nickname in America was "The Flying Fool," but since his success he has become the great ...
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 ...MARCH 10, 1927
(FIR) Hawker " Hedgehog "
Bristol " Jupiter "
The " Hedgehog" is a three-
seater Fleet reconnaissance machine.
The wings are of short span and
fairly thick section, and a gravity
tank i...
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 ...MARCH 10, 1927
(B) Hawker " Horsley "
Rolls-Royce " Condor "
THE Hawker " Horsley " is
another modern conception of the
day bombing machine, but differ-
ing from the " Fox" in several
respects. In the...
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 ...THE VICKERS " VIMY-ROLLS."—Three-quarter front view. The machine will be piloted by Capt. J. Alcock,
D.S.C., and the navigator will be Lieut. A. W. Brown, whose article on elementary navigation was p...
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 ...DECEMBER 14, 1922
The Vickers " Vulcan " eight-seater, with 360 h.p. Rolls-Royce " Eagle " engine.
Already several years before the war the famous firm of
Vickers, Ltd., had an aviation department,...
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61 Conqueror of the
Atlantic: the Vickers Vimy
bomber (Rolls-Royce Eagle
engines) of 1918.
associated shortly after the war with an extremely advanced four-
engined transport...
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 ...FLIGHT International, 12 June 1969 - 959
Next Sunday, June 15, marks the fiftieth anniversary of the
first non-stop aerial crossing of the Atlantic, by Capt John
Alcock and Lt Arthur Whitten Brown....
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